Dermatological instrument



Nov, 25,

P. CUSIMANO DERMATOLOGIGAL INSTRUMENT Filed Feb. 21. 1923 Patented Nov. 25, 1924.

UNITED STATES PHILIP CUSIMANO, 0! LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

DERMATOLOGICAL INSTRUMENT.

Application filed February 21, 1923. Serial No. 620,372.

1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP CUsIMANO, a

citizen ofthe United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Dermatological Instrument, of which the followin is a specification. This invention re ates to a dermatological instrument which is expected to be particularly useful for removing ingrowing hairs or black heads. The generalobjectof the invention is to produce an instrument of this kind having means for facilitating the exposing of the ingrowing hair and for effecting its removal; also to provide the instrument with a magnifying device capable of being used in connection with the difi'erent functions of the instrument.

The invention consists in the novel parts and combination of parts to be described hereinafter, all of which contribute to produce an eflicient dermatological instrument.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is described in the following specification while the broad scope of the invention is pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective View of an instrument embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view showing one end of the instrument.

Fig. 3 is also a plan view showing the other end of the instrument, and

Fig. 4 is a. section taken through the end of the device which is employed as a pore squeezer.

In its construction the instrument comprises an elongated frame having a pore squeezing device formed at one end which is used to press down the flesh around the ingrowing hair and having a pair of tweezer arms with cooperating jaws disposed at its other end, and mounted on the frame of the instrument I provide a ma nifying glass which is capable of being quicily positioned over the pore squeezing cup or over the tweezers. I also provide a needle point at the same end of the instrument that carries the tweezers, and the magnifying glass is located so that it may cooperate with the needle point as well as with the tweezers.

The frame is preferably constructed of an elongated bar 1, the outer end of which is slightly enlarged to roduce a head 2 in the form of a cup 3 wit a small opening 4; to operate as a squeezing cup for squeezing a pore. The device operates in the usual manner simply by pressing the cup against the flesh so that the pore or hair to be removed is located in alinement with the opening 4.

-At the end of the bar 1, which is remote from the head 2, the bar 1 is provided with a twist so that from this point to the other end the bar is disposed in a plane substantially at right angles to the plane in which the flatface of the bar lies. In the direction of the head 2, in other words beyond the twisted point, the bar 1 is formed into a tweezer arm 5. This tweezer arm is resilient and cooperates with a similar tweezer arm 6 which is secured to the bar 1 at its junction point with the tweezer arm 5. This may be accomplished by means of rivets 7. At their extremities the tweezer arms 5 and 6 are provided with downwardly and inwardly extending tweezer points or jaws 8. These jaws lie opposite to each other and come together when the arms 5 and 6 are pressed toward each other. In this way they may be made to grasp a hair and enable the same to be extracted.

It frequently happens that a hair will be ingrowing and does not project sufliciently to enable the tweezer jaws 8 to seize it. For this purpose I prefer to provide one of the tweezer arms, for example the arm 6, with a needle point 9 which forms a point on the arm beyond its jaw 8. This needle point 9 is ver useful for penetrating the flesh aroun the hair until the end of the hair can be made to project sutficiently to enable the jaws to seize it.

In order to facilitate the use of these instruments, at the ends of the device, I provide a magnifying glass 10 which is mounted in such a way that it can be brought into focusing position at either end of the instrument. This is preferably accomplished by securing the magnifying glass on the end of an arm 11 whlch is formed with a laterally disposed pintle 12 which is held friction-tight in the frame between the rivets 7. In other words at this point the material of the arms 5 and 6 is offset outwardly so as to form concave sockets 13 which cooperate to produce a hearing or cylindrical socket for this pintle.

In Figure 1 I illustrate the magnifying glass held in its focusing position over the squeezing cup 3, but if desired the arm 11 may be swung around to an opposite position, as illustrated in Figure 3 so that it will I lie over the tweezer jaws 8 and over the needle point 9.

It is evldent that the instrument is of very simple construction at the same time embodying means for performing the different functions of the instrument and under conditions where the point of application of the instrument may be m ed.

It is understood that the embo iment of the invention described herein is only one of the many embodiments this invention may take and I do not wish to be limited in the practice of my invention nor 1n my claims to the particular embodiment set forth.

What I claim is: v

1. A dermatological instrument for removing ingrowing hairs having a frame with a pore squeezing device at one end for pressing down the flesh around the hair, and tweezer jaws at the other end, and a magnifying glass carried by the frame and movable into position over the pore squeezin device or the tweezer jaws.

2. A ermatological instrument for removing ingrowing hairs comprising an elongated frame consisting of a bar with a pore squeezing cup formed at one end thereof for pressing down the flesh around the hair, and having cooperating tweezer points at the other end, an arm pivotally mounted on the frame, and a magnifying glass carried on the arm and mounted so as to come into focusing position over the said cup or over the points of the tweezers.

3. A dermatological instrument for removing ingrowing hairs having a frame with a pore squeezing device at one end and tweezer jaws at the other end for pressing down the flesh around the hair, a magnifying glass carried by the frame and movable into position over the pore squeezing device or the tweezer jaws, and a needle point located beyond the tweezer jaws.

4. A dermatological instrument for removing ingrowing hairs comprising an elongated frame having a pore squeezing cup formed at one end thereof and having a pair of tweezer arms with cooperating jaws disposed toward the other end, one of said arms having a needle point located beyond the tweezer jaws for exposing the end of the hair, a magnifying glass, and

means for supporting'the same over the squeezing cup or over the end of the tweezer arms.

A dermatological instrument for removing ingrowing hairs comprising. an elongated bar with a squeezing cup formed at one end for pressing down the flesh around the hair, and having an extension at the other end constituting a tweezerarm,

PHILIP CUSIMANO. 

